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Fun fact: Osama bin Laden, the founder of Al-Qaeda, had this video in his computer's audio/visual collection.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Bit_My_Finger#Legacy
Another fun fact: the contents of his computers that weren't scrubbed because of known malware or classified intelligence value are available courtesy of the CIA: https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/index.html
What gives. I hate how much time I’ve already wasted trying to figure out why this is the one time CIA shares our American work with Americans.
It’s been like 30 seconds. I don’t know why they’d do this.